kubuntu on old laptop

[Joseph Sinclair]

BitTorrent is like that, the speed of download is highly dependent on who's seeding the tracker, how fast their upload is, how much of the original file they have, etc...  Sometimes you get a good deal, sometimes not, and if there are multiple trackers, it's often good to try a different one if the first is slow.

Dazed_75 wrote:
> Thanks.  I never thought to scroll past all the foreign sites.  It is also
> interesting that the first torrent I tried (in the UK) began with an
> estimate of 7 days and dropped to 2 days in a couple of minutes.  I quit
> that and tried a torent from norway which started at like 7 HOURS and
> dropped to about 2 hours in a couple of minutes.
>